Robo call Round II

The second ” robo call ” went out Sunday and Monday to tribal members, reporters, the governor’s office and various in-sundry federal officials. The call urged tribal members to attend the Sunday meeting and dispute the $386.5 million request from Shovel Ready Ceddie and the Woebegones…begging Arkana for between $50 – $100m.  The rest you may recall is supposed to come from the banks.  The bulk of the money goes to the laundromat or the Gaming Authority which is basically a separate tribe, but in our name none the less.  Trouble is we have no vote or authority to stop the Woebegone gravy train.

What now bro?

Things are heating up so much Genting may want to scrap the tribe that’s generating a lot  of negative press that could upend its major plans in Florida and Las Vegas.  The federal government is not real fond of corruption.The PR firm that is assigned to the MWT, Regan, has already assigned a flack to Florida for the real gaming fight. With so much controversy here, all Regan does is offer ” No comment, ”  on behalf of the befuddled Shovel Ready Ceddie. After all what can he say?  What is the proper response?  There is no response… but that comes with the guilty brand that SRC has born for a long time.

There’s more to come to the chagrin of the Woebegones. But SRC issued a memo telling staff and council members that they should look forward to a “very prosperous year in 2015.” Wow.  The guy’s either a comedian or a demon.

Pity the Fool

Edith T. Bannister was a first and second grad teacher at Samuel G. Davis School.  She was one of those dedicated teachers of the type necessary to teach Mashpee kids.  She had many aphorisms and words of wit for us.  One comes to mind:

“Fool’s names and fool’s faces

always appear in public places.”

What the reader should take away from this is:  If you object to your name or face being displayed on this page, then your best course is to not be a fool.  Free yourself from the corruption and destructive behavior that has taken hold of our Tribe like the talons of a predatory bird.  Smarten up.  The gravy train is about to go off the track.

Word to the wise.

 

Tribe diagnosis: Ptomaine Poisoning from “Feedin the Fryes”

Joann campaigning for sista Yvonne. She's so huge they call her B.A.T.S. " Bursting At The Seams".

Where did the Fryes go wrong?  Well the gluttony (habitual greed or excessive eating) began when Joanne and her sister Ca doctored the 2009 voter sign in sheets to keep themselves on the payroll. And this one is so powerful, he reportedly gave Barnstable County doctored 1040’s to avoid child support. Of course we’re talking about Joann’s son Bobby Foster who is said to have burnt up voter sign in sheets.  They threw the election and have made sure Shovel Ready Ceddie remembers that he knows… that they know he owes them LARGE.

Oh, they tried to fire Joann many times but she

The the Overwight Lova.

pulled the herring from the river in winter….ya know what I mean? Joann provided total cover for the Fryebal Council that never stopped growing and burgeoning. On the rare occasion when a Mills or a Hicks is hired, you better believe 5 Fryes are hired and frequently imported from around the country to fill jobs they are totally unqualified to hold. Three (part time) Peters’ have been adopted into the Fryebal Council.  They took out papers eagerly!

Yvonne still slip sliding away.

The Fryebal Council Obstacle Course travels through the Council maze of malfeasance lead by the Mean Travel Queen Yvonne. When she’s not flying to useless meetings nationwide, she’s constantly disguising herself in court as a social worker, capable of resolving all our ICWA troubles.  She’s like a psycho chameleon gone wild assuming a new identity every day.  Risky yes, but does the Mean Travel Queen worry….no she’s the slippery slimy one who has no friends. She’s a Frye for now but when it gets hot watch out she’ll squeal on everyone….even sista Joann.

Bobby, Yvonne’s nephew is the Illusionist, who see himself differently than we do.  As a Council member he confirms how worthless the Council is. He’s  been on the dodge all his life. Irresponsible with kids he doesn’t want to support…known forever as the guy with the fake GED.  Really Bobby?  Who has to falsify a GED certificate ?  You’re a well known illiterate. Remember your infamous email memo to Patty Oakley…” I needs to no bout this.”

And the lovely, compassionate First Lady Cheryl Frye Cromwell keeper of the lies and the backhoe for the Sacred Arkana Burial Ground.  The Micky Fryes–BATS and them, barely acknowledged Cheryl (or Kimmie either), of the Danny Fryes…cause, well you know. Cheryl is the liaison for  tribal members to the health department. Horrible.  She takes lots of pictures and grins that crazy grin with Indian Health Services officials. They clearly don’t know how far she’s come from that tough life and how badly she wants to forget it. She helps no one and many have suffered because of her insensitivity.

Kimmie Frye resigned as Elections Chair, now she's back to make sure the Frye's prevail. Nancy struggles to smile, as usual.

Then there’s Nancy Joseph. Nancy Joseph…. a Frye who finally arrived in the tribe with bad attitude and all.  She finally got all the benefits of being a Frye by default, cause everyone still calls her Nancy Joseph.  All the meanness and resentment not associated with the Fryes came in one big nasty package called Nancy Joseph. Anyway, after she got the job as the financial assistant, in Tribal Finance …ahem, making  more than $60k. Don’t ask for her qualifications.  Right. She sashays around with her all her nastiness spewing everywhere…. she gets rid of her house in Falmouth, jumps on the 184 Housing program and gets a house on the infamous Cotuit Road.  The internal audit is riddled with Nancy Joseph’s incomplete paperwork and unanswered questions that show a clear pattern of discrimination and obvious gift of a $300k home backed by the tribe. Oh yah, her sister Joann got a house too, and Joann has been foreclosed on so much that lenders would laugh hysterically at her application.  Now Nancy was just the opposite with a ” partner ” who has a legitimate job and good income and was coming into a big settlement.  Well, Nancy just couldn’t help herself….she got the 184 when she should not have. The sisters were at the opposite ends of the spectrum and should not have gotten a house, but they did.  That means 2 families that met the criteria did not get  houses because they were not Fryes. Literally. Nancy panicked when all the noise was cranked up about the 184’s and started paying her mortgage.  Her man got his expected settlement and the big very expensive juiced up  purple truck  is parked in front of the government house they should not have.Purple Haze.......

 

 

 

The Cowlitz & Carlisle = $386,500,000m more debt.. Ho! Ho! Ho!

Let’s talk about the Cowlitz Tribe.  Let’s talk about how the Cowlitz situation is in no way connected to us and cannot help us get land in trust.  Here’s why: The Cowliz are part of the Salish nation in Washington state. In 1911 the Cowlitz received (federal) land allotments on the Quinault Reservation.

The Cowlitz we are not.

That means they were on a federal reservation, under the jurisdiction of the Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs (before 1933). Their current lawsuit is embroiled in legal challenges because the Cowlitz want to take a second parcel of land into trust for an off reservation casino.  Of course the surrounding communities don’t want it and are fighting it, and despite the BIA saying they’re ready to move, those legal challenges are blocking that. We cannot coattail the Cowlitz unless the BIA wants to reverse a bunch of decisions.

But the big difference between us and them is that the Cowliz were clearly under federal jurisdiction before 1933, and we were not. So the Cowlitz could get that off reservation casino because the US Supreme Court  Carcieri case makes one exception: it allows the BIA to take LIT ONLY if the tribe was under federal jurisdiction before 1933. 

So What about us?  Well now, Shovel Ready Ceddie and attorney Arlinda Locklear are offering (38 year old) REJECTED ARGUMENTS as proof  that we were under the feds prior to 1933. Well, clearly this is all strictly for billing purposes and the paycheck.  But they press on with irrelevant (and rejected) arguments like these.

Mashpee Wampanoag (Charlie Peters, Eben Queppish and Nelson Simon) attended Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania.  Yes they did but the feds had no authority over us. The other argument is that  our

Mashpee in our Middleboro homeland in 1929

agreements and land deeds with the King of England were tantamount to recognition by the new United States government.  That is absolutely not true. Those agreements were not transferred, considered or of any concern to the US government. Unlike the western tribes, we had no treaties with the US government. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts governed us from 1776  until 2007 (without Land in Trust we are in limbo as a landless tribe, we own nothing and our sovereignty is incomplete).  We had plantations  (reservations)for centuries under the Commonwealth, as Marshpee, and later Mashpee. As wards of the Commonwealth we became a town in 1876 and then we really got screwed because Sandwich and surrounding towns would blatantly steal our land with authority! We had self governance, but as the Town of Mashpee in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Ironically, Massachusetts Governor Levi Lincoln Jr blocked the first possibility

Massachusetts Gov. Levi Lincoln Jr blocked our removal from the state.

of our becoming a “federal tribe”  in the 1830’s.It actually worked in our best interest. When President Andrew Jackson began his forced  “Indian removal” known as the “Trail of Tears,”  Jackson wanted to move us to Oklahoma.  Lincoln, a progressive, said no way.   With a 1,000 miles added to the 3000 mile trek we would have surely perished like thousands of Creeks, Cherokees, Chickasaws, Seminoles and Choctaws forced from their homeland and culture.

MW Reniasance leader Eben Queppish

Our attempt to get federal recognition in 1933 was lead by Mashpee Wampanoag Renaissance leaders  Queppish and Simon.  Simply put, everyone met at the Old Indian Church, did the required paperwork that never materialized at the BIA. Middleboro sleuths reminded the BIA of that with recognition documents confirm that fact.

So, Shovel Ready Ceddie and Locklear are using the King of England, Carlisle and the failed 1933 effort AGAIN. Those arguments were rejected during the recognition process and in our  famous land suit from the late 1970’s. So what’s changed ? Nothing but the enormous  price tag attached to this deceitful mission to get us to believe the Woebegones can get around Carcieri. There’s no detour, but they keep spinning and spending.

Now the worst part. We laughed pretty hard about the Healing Fire fiasco especially with the First Lady lying about what a huge success it was. Oh yaaaas yaaaas! Just like her major effort to help the tribal member get to her cancer treatments. Ahem.

But the last laugh is on us.  Shovel Ready Ceddie and the Woebegone Crew had to do the big spin on LIT  to justify a $386.500,000.00 loan they’re going for now. Oh, don’t forget the $100,000,000 we’re drowning in, with nothing to show for it. This is in light of the fact that (according to the Taunton Gazette) the BIA has even less to say than normal about our application.  BIA honcho Kevin Washburn  said earlier this summer that he could no longer predict when our application would be finished, totally lacking the enthusiasm he had months earlier.  Just call it INFINITY cause we don’t meet the 1933 criteria.

The state has extended the gaming license application deadline by a few months, not for us but to get the best deal  for the Southeast region.  None of the state leaders see us as a threat because of our LIT is such a long shot.

So this is how the budget breaks down:

The Tribe — $12,500,000  (to keep “Feedin’ the Fryes”)

The MW Gaming Authority  $374,000,000

Casino                                   $250,000,000

TCAM                                     $ 55,000,000

Steelman Partners                  $ 17,000,000

Taunton Property                     $ 40,000,000

Property Option                       $   7,000,000

The numbers come out about $5m short but actually that’s being paid to about 10 additional architects associated with Steelman Partners. For some reason those extra architects are just floating around independently instead of coming under the Steelman umbrella.They are busy working in Vegas and Florida for Genting(Arkana). TCAM is the original investor group and Middleboro, the Property Option fees is money

Fantasy First Light Casino constantly redesigned

we have paid to hold the many small tracts of Taunton property that we don’t own.  We do not get that money back by the way. But you know Shovel Ready. Who cares….as long as he gets a check.  All of this is contingent upon us getting LIT.  If we don’t get it,TCAM gets nothing, no casino built. Lotta money spent on people doing nothing but over billing.

Shovel Ready told our well informed Treasurer  Robbie Hendricks now known as “Boo Boo the Fool” that he was working on Bank of America and Wells Fargo to loan the $224 m balance because Arkana is tapped out at $150 m. Jesus, why would these banks bother with us? The Woebegones also have option 2 of  $27 m for the Gaming Authority, if the land doesn’t go into trust,(add the $12.5m Feedin’ the Fryes money) and we’re just under the Arkana cash cut off. Isn’t that interesting? Also the Arkana loan comes due July 3 ($150m) etc etc.  Yah why has the loan due date been extended over and over if we don’t have to pay it back His Hokaness? And if we plan on honoring the state compact we have to have land into trust to move forward. Could it be no LIT no casino? And how do we pay it back with no cash flow? With that being in doubt, the state issues the license to a White gaming entity that is credible and not a front. The other options are risky and would confirm our money laundering status for all these years and Shovel Ready allowing it to happen.

Yes the Woebegones give us food bank charity of potatoes and ham. Oh yah, how was the $100m ham? And they keep spending millions on whatever

Welfare for us...millions for the Woebegones

personal luxury they want. And taking care of their buddies and the Fryes is the pastime.  We can look forward to nearly $500,000,000 in debt.

Watch for His Hokaness and The First Lady digging around in the Arkana

Shovel Ready & TFL are using Winnie's backhoe in the Arkana Sacred Burial Ground

Scared Burial Ground very soon. Looking for all that dirty money that never went through the laundry.

The Woebegone Tribe, where’s the ” Healing, Heat & Hams ?”

The pitiful ” Healing Fire” was set by a security person…two logs smoldering that had no

Barely visible , barely smoldering....

participants.  The Medicine Man was absent again because his healing and conciliatory powers are, let’s just say less than effective. When the effort to heal the tribe is being lead by the Creepy People…..well no one shows up.

Time to resort to that famous Mashpee humor….take it away Ralph Hendricks “Where’s the healing, heat and ham?” he says laughin’.  The miserable fire continued to smolder as another tribal member asked if anyone needed a lighter to get it cranking.

Tomorrow more on the Sunday meeting and who has what information and other such madness.

A missed opportunity….but revealing our sliding down the slippery slope

His “Hokaness” has decided to change the host of the Sunday  “Healing Fire.” To replace Messy Jessie with her cousin Guy Cash, the alleged Tribal  Medicine Man demonstrates the abject disregard for the well being of our people.  Clearly the administrative regime recognizes that it has a huge image problem but has botched efforts to win back the support of  tribal members.   This move only worsens their deteriorating status.

John Peters "Slow Turtle" was an internationally recognized Native American leader. According to the NYT, he is the initiator of ICWA and a fierce advocate for indigenous people and the Mashpee most of all. He was the Supreme Medicine Man of the Wampanoag Nation.

When Guy Cash replaced Medicine Man John Peters, that was insulting enough, but he has never been able to comfort or minister to suffering members.  It’s a full time job, and Cash has been absent.   His illness is one thing, and we understand.  But, he should have resigned.  The tribe paid thousands for Cash’s medical bills and other things.  He was paid to vote and was instrumental in Shovel Ready Ceddie coming to power and the ultimate degradation of nearly all of our most basic traditions.

We have many Elders who are shut in, others are sick.  Guy Cash is no where to be found. He can’t even show up for naming ceremonies so of course Messy inserts herself in place of ! We recently had a tribal member murdered in her home….Guy never went near the grieving family.  In an email he said he was ” too busy. ”

The “Healing Fire” is drawing controversy…and they continue to throw fuel on the fire.  Bring your own coffee and stuff like that he says ! Can ya spare it?  A few dollars out of that $100 million.  We can only hope the staff will be counseled to  stop taking food from the Pantry so the members without can benefit.

Guy Cash......

To bring back Billy James or John Peters is wishful thinking.  But this regime should at least pretend to emulate those who had our best interests at heart.

Exhausting.

 

His Hokaness’s Arkana Sacred Burial Ground

Housing has been deposited in the Arkana Sacred Burial Ground . Here’s the worst part. Of the audited documents that were randomly sampled, not a single one was properly done. Correct Valerie. Of all the hundreds of samples taken…..every single case evaluated was a perfect  case of fraud and misuse of thousands of taxpayer dollars.

Right.  Valerie was so numb she was doling out thousands of HUD dollars for herself, family, and daughters. And the Housing Commission lead by Corine, was giving Housing Commission member Joan Avant (Valeries aunt) money, just because they could. We all love Joan, but for God sakes.  Who ever let unethical behavior get in the way? And Corine has the nerve to be nasty to people.  We won’t rewind to the other family members who were lavished while others suffered. This is a sorry state of affairs and the people who need the help may never get it because of the gross incompetence and mismanagement.

Course they don’t know the traditions so they are not affected. They understand money though, especially since they have never had it and they will do anything for it….anything.   There are officers who are involving  their own children in the slimy Arkana money game. That’s right their kids…heady stuff indeed.

Back to Housing…the audit talks about a tribal staffer who lives with an alleged drug dealer and received first and last months rent.  That of course is a violation of federal law. They point that out. Think about this. If the outside auditor knew that, what do you think the feds know ? This member also has a high profile position, and was recently stopped for driving on a suspended license. Course in the White man’s world she would be fired.  It’s like all these horrible acts are a prerequisite to be part of Shovel Ready Ceddie’s Crooked Council of Thieves and Scoundrels. 

The $100 million hams !

On to more really embarrassing stuff…. our big gift of the season is the Free Tribal Ham. A Free Tribal Ham that is donated by the First Baptist Church of Brewster and our (so called) Food Pantry which is funded by a grant and the Boston Food Bank.  Okay so let’s get this right. We have Shovel Ready Ceddie and the gang at the White House, Peter Pan fanning around taking selfies with the President (making the paper no less!) like everything is right with the world.Since we have abandoned the turtle, apparently we have is a new mascot who will never grow up.  …..So this regime has disposed of $100 million of Arkana money and we’re living off charity? These are the same charities the indigent turn to.  Anyway, everyone knows the Frybal Council staff will run down to the pantry and steal all the hams anyway.

And we have yet another outrage . The Sunday “Healing Fire.”  brought to us by none other than Messy Jessie and her sidekick the First Lady, who ironically refused to help the tribal member with breast cancer.  Another fabricated tradition designed to make Messy the center of attention.  How do these people expect to heal us when they’re the ones making us sick.

What they need to do is  dedicate “His Hokaness’s’ Sacred Arkana Burial Ground,” and they can assign our plots.

 

 

 

 

Arlinda’s incredible spin

We finally went through the records to validate the fact that the land into trust fantasy has driven Shovel Ready Ceddie and his band of thieves MAD. Tribal lawyer Arlinda Locklear has lassoed the Cowliz Tribe case like we’re going to get LIT if the Cowliz get a second  casino reservation. Well let’s just be honest…it’s another lie.  We’ll tell you more about it in a bit.

Whatever it takes to keep the money coming.

Oh ya, The First Lady is bragging about shopping today, on Black Friday…… while you struggle to pay the light bill.  Not a dime, not a dollar to tribal members. Where’s our bonus?

Larry’s sad story, $20,000 for Xmas bonus/party & the beat goes on

You may remember that several months ago Larry Balbuena went to Shovel  Ready Ceddie for help.  He got the abbreviated version of his “Hokaness’s” Cuff  ‘n Carry edict.  Tribal security, who play video games all day long for $20 an hour, dragged Larry away like a dog.  Security went back inside and finished their video games and practiced yodeling in the empty echo chamber.

Larry was a big supporter of “His Hokaness” also known as “Shovel Ready Ceddie” and “Arkana Dowhatevatogetdemoney.”

But it ain’t funny now. Larry who needed real help ended up in New Bedford and got into a serious altercation and was near death.  Now if he got the help he needed from the only place we have ever gone, this might have turned out differently.

More proof that  “His Hokaness” is totally doped by getting the money he never had and is living the ghetto life of his dreams.  This was the last straw and the final proof that SRC is not Mashpee, will never be Mashpee and has nightmares about forgetting where he buried all that loot from the Arkana (Mashpee Wampanoag) Gaming Authority.

But get this…they’re planning a big $20,000 Christmas party with bonuses for all the people who rarely work and turn away the needy.

They also get federal money from the Housing program when they absolutely should not. And they pilfer the Boston Food Bank in our tribal building like the shameless disgraces that they are.  Any other  leader would prohibit staff from shopping in the raggedy food bank because they can shop at Stop & Shop.  Not Shovel Ready Ceddie his tradition is Ghetto Fabulous Till They Take Me Away.

You have to wonder if he understands that the Creator sees all.

Ain’t that right Deaconess?

 

Winnie underestimated

Can ya just give us a few tips ?

We got it wrong.  Winnie Johnson didn’t get $25,000 from Housing or HUD, she got $50,000 on two different houses.

That doesn’t include the broken down Bobcat she sold the tribe         (with no title)  for $16,000. It has never worked. It’s just ridiculous.

Just so you know people.

Let’s hear what Corrine, the chair of the Housing Commission has to say about that.  All this mess is under her watch…every bit of it.